Rubber Needs Over-Rated
RESTRICTIONS ARE NECESSARY
DUTCH, VIEW POSITION
London, March 10. The Financial Times Amsterdam corkapondent states that there is considerable surprise in well- fnformed Dutch quarters that the Rubber Regulation Committee has not-yet raised restriction to thirty or thirty-five per cent.
It is believed that the Committee
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH
1985.
HELENA MAY CONCERT
TOWN PLANNING EXPERT
LONDON STOCK
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Mr. C. L Tatham, well-known has been arranged for the final civil engineer and town planning musicale of the season at the expert, who has for some time past Helena May Institute to-morrow been engaged on work connected (Thursday), at 5.80 p.m. It is as with the follows:
new "Hongkong grand,
Mar. 28. Mar. 19. 1-Prelude and Fugue in Cininor
Shanghai Bank building, left Hong- Belttal Government Securities kong to-day for a tour through War Loan 344.70 Bach 2-Variations in F.........Mozart Japan, having completed his sor-
redm. after 1932 106% 100% B-Sonate Characteristique,
vice with Messrs. Logan and Ampa. Whilst in Japan, ko hopes to gain 44% Donda 1898
Chinese Bonds further knowledge of town plan- (Eng. Isa.) £100% £100% ning, and, on his return to the 4% Loan 1908 60940014 Colony, will decide whether to re- 5% Lean 1912884 £89 turn to Australia or to remain in 6 Reorg. Loan the Far East.
101 2 1 5 Bonds 1926-47 97% £
8'hai-Nanking
£ 82
Op. 81A. is E flat. Beethoven (a) Les Adieux. Adagio, Allegro, (b) L'Absencet Andante espressivo. (e) Le Retour: Vivacissimamente.
has considerably. overrated con(Oh! hasten tarry not). Mozart sumption and has overlooked the, fact that the peak of the United States", consumption is no longer) in March, but in January.
It is thought that American consumption for the first quarter will be 182,000 tons, as against on estimate of 140,000 tons, while consumption in the second quar- ter will be considerably lower,
It is further pointed out that; German rubber imports for Janu- ary were twenty per cent, below last year and Italian huports of British rubber will be reduced by: twenty per cent. Hence, there is sufficient reason for the Com- mittee to reconsider its position and exert further restriction- Reuter.
Riy
6% Tlent-Pukow
Rly. 6% Tient-Pukow. Railway (Supl. 6% Bhal-H'chow
Loan)
Ningpo Rly.
£ 20
20
.. £101 101
Mr. II. Ore 4-Recit: Gluneo affin il momento (Now the moment approaches). Aria: Deh Vieni, non tardará d
Mr. Tatham started his protes-6 slonal career as cadet to the Aria: Non so più cosa son (I forget what I am, what I'm-
Municipality of Perth, Western Australia, in which he served for doing) ............. Mozart three years. He was then for a
Mrs. D. Snowdon-Jonee 6(a) Prelude in E minor..Chopin the Australian Expeditionary Force further period of three yours with 7-Scherzo
(b) Etudo in C minor...Chopin in France, during the Great War, Greg in which he was mentioned in de 6.-Asphodel 8-(n) Gavotte, Op. 12 Harry Ore patches. In 1918 and 1919, he
.Cyril Scott (b) Menuet, Op. 16.Harry Ore was with Mesars Trollope and (e) Bagatelle, Op. 21 Harry Ore Colle, London, under Dr. Faber,
Mr. HL Ore
engaged in dealgn steel work, fram ing and reinforced concrete. In 1921, he was appointed civil on-German 7 Int. gineer in charge of construction of the Yarraville terminal 50,000 K.W, stopdown atation for the 182,000 volt transmission line from Yal ..Liszt tourn, Victoria,
10-(a) Star Vicino Salvater Rosa Twilight Fancies ....Delius (e) My Heart is in Bloom
Brahms (d) A Piper ... Micline) Head (e) Spring CV. Standford
Mr. D. Snowdon-Jones 11-Concerts In E flat
Mr. II. Ore The Orchestral Part played on a Becond Piano by Mr. A. M. Dowes-Smith
BRITISH FINANCES Federick Mason, L.T.C.L. Foar as assistant and five years as
SATISFACTORY
BUDGET ESTIMATES ALMOST REACHED
A:R.C.O., will be
in the vocal items,
the accompanist
TRADE SLUMP IN
SHANGHAI
In 1923, Mr. Tatham joined the Singapore Improvement Trust, and remained there for six years-one
Senior Assistant, Town Planner and Engineer to the Manager. Here he gained much valuable ex- perience in town planning under Mr. E. P. Richards, the first Do- puty Chairman of the Trust, whose work has been most successful. In 1927-28, Mr. Tatham secured leave from tho Straits Settlements Government to proceed to the London University, where, for two fyears, he studied under Professor S.D. Adaliead, Past President of the Town Planning Institute.
TOWN PLANNING STUDIES
London, March 19. With two weeks to run before the end of the financial year, the
IMPORT TOTAL FAR BELOW LAST YEAR latest Treasury returns show that ordinary revenue amounted t March 16 to £681,358,585, which is
Shanghai, Bar. 20. an increase of $18,002331 over
The extent of the business slump Jast week's figures. The estimate Shanghai is shown by the Cus. for the year is £706,520,000, and toms returns for February, Just | In 1930, Mr. Tatham studied the
tions.
issued.
£.46
5% Honan Rly. -31 £ 31% 5% Hukuang Rly. Lung Tring U. 1011
£ 40 Hai Rly, 1913. 184 184
Foreign Bonds and Banks
Loan 1924... £ 70% £70% Japan 6% Sterling Japan 6% Sterling
Loan 1907 £ 17 £ 77 Loan 1024 £90, £ 90 H.K. & S'hal Bank Chartered Bank 45
(Lin. Regd... £180 £130
£15 216 Commercial and Industrial Allied Iron Found- Associated
Industries, Austin Motors ord. Boots Dish. British-American
Tobacco Canadian Celanese Chinese Eng. and Min. (Bearer) Courtaulds Distillers.... Dunlop Rubber Electric
CTB +
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Ballroomt
THE MUSIC MAKERS
1.
From ZBW on a wavelength of 355 motres (845 kilocycles)..
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. 6-6.15 p.m. Children's Studio Con-
cert.
7-7.20 p.m. A Concert. Pianoforte Solo-Mazurka in E
Minor, Op.41, No. 2 (Chopin) Planoforte Solos Traumeswirren (Dream Visions), Op. 12, No. 7 (Schumann). Vladimir Horowits Songe The Almond Tree (Schumann) Bonge The Mocking Fairy (Besly)
Elsie Suddaby (Soprano). Pianoforte Solos--Paganini Etude in
E Flat Major (Paganini) Pianoforte Solos-Children's Corner Suite (Debussy)-Serenade for the Doll
Vladimir. Horowitz. Songs-Myself when young ("In a
Paralan Garden") (Lehmann) Songs-Silent Moon (Vaughan, Wil
Hama)
Stuart Robertson (Baritone). 7.26-7.43 p.m.. Bolero (Ravel) play- ed by Willem Mengelberg and his Concertgebouw Orchestra.
7.43-8 pm. Vocal Gems.
The Maid of the Mountains (Fraser-
Simson)
Musical Comedy Selection
Garda Hall and George Baker. 8 p.m. Local Time and Weather [Report.
8.03-8.20 p.m. From the Studio,
A Violin Recital by Conrado de la Crus, accompanied by Nura Kania,
Programme
Variationen..Tartin-Kruisler. 2. Romanze ...
Wagner-Wilhelm.
3. Grandmother's Menuet
Grieg-Elman
4. Spanish Danco Malaguena
Sarasate.
8.20-8.46 pm. Variety Items. Humorous-Scientifically, of course! Humorous-If you pretend you're
Blue
1.
Elec.
371- 37/~
20/-
4428
26/-
46/3
48/- 48/~
115/-
115/- 78/978/9
10/-
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Nickel
$ 98% -$ 24%
Industries.... General Electric
(England) Impl. Chem Ind. the total revenue collected so far
latest developments in engineering Impl. Chem. Ind. The total value of imports into and town planning in New York Impl. Tobacco... 133/1% 133/1% is therefore already within about Shanghal for the month was $40,- City, and in the same year he was Internat. £25,000,000 of Budget expecta-214,926, representing a reduction engaged on a topographical and
Income tax collected last week of $6,444,376 when compared with hydraulic survey for the Greek Rolls Royco & amounted to £5,003,000, bringing last year, while the total value of note that he has studied various S'hai Elce, Constr.
figures of the corresponding month Government. It is of interest to the total to date to £218,486,000, exports, from Shanghai was $20, aspects of town planning i Greece, Tate & Lyle which is almost within one million pounds of the Budget Estimate for
880,063.-Central News.
France, Germany, New York, Eng-Turner & Newall land, Singapore and the F.M.S. Watney, Combo
United Steel the whole year, of $219,500,000,
and is of opinion that town plann-
4& collected up to the corresponding ARIYOSHI TO GIVE ing is as essential for the East as Woolworths
Rold def. ord. 65/6
G/m for the Wost.
-sh.'
101/3
data of last year.
up to
Ordinary expenditure March 16 is £675,930,952, com-j pared with £663,495,216 on March 17, 1934. The total estimate cf.
ADVICE
ordinary expenditure for the JAPANESE CHANGING current year, including supplemen- tary grants, is £715,709,000.- British Wireless.
DEFENCE AGAINST AIR RAID
(Continued from Pago 1.) less qualified pilots on the active list than the Royal Air Force.
The machines at the disposal of the Royal Air Force were inforior Ao none in design and performance, but technical progress was rapid that a strenuous re-equip- 'ment programme was necessary, in addition to an increase in the total numbers, Sir Philip hoped it would be possible in the future to shorten the time taken to bring now types into production.
50
MORE AERODROMES The British aireraft industry was more than holding its own, and the value of its exports in
Bero
CHINA POLICY
Mr. Tatham holds the certificate of the London University for town planning, is an Associate Member ARBOciate Member of the Institute of the Town Planning Institute, and
of Engineers, Australia.
ah.
Murgatroyd and Winterbottom. Piano Medley ......Ronald Gourley. Vocal-Pop-Eyed Pete
Vocal-Little Mountain Cablu
The Billies.
Banjo Bolo-Keyboard. Kapera Mandoline Solo Mazur
Mario de Pietro, 8.46-9 p.m. Introduction and Al- legro for larp with Strings and Woodwind Accompaniment (Ravel)
Virtuoso String Quartet.
9-9.30 p.m. Light Orchestral Selec- tlone.
Danube Waven-Waltz (Ivanovic!) Over the Waves-Wallz (Rosas) With a Song in my Heart-Symphonic
Rhapsody (Eric Conloa) Helena Waltzer (Offenbach) Kongreb Waltzer (Strauss-Hoy-
mann)
Bird Songs at Eventide (Erie Coates) Gipsy Moon (Borganoff)
9.30 p.m. Reuter Press Bulletins, London 1 p.m. Stock & Commodity Quotations.
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Miscellaneous Anglo-Dutch Chartd. 15/- sh. Gula Kalumpong
(Bearer) Rubber. Pekin Synd. 2/-
ord. sh. Rubber Trusts .. Southern Railway
(Deferred).... £ 22
Mines
Randfontein
Estates
9.35-10.05 p.m. From the Studio... Selections by "The Music Makers." Dance Orchestra.
10.05.11 p.m. Majestic Ballroom
10.30 p.m. Press Bulletins, Stock Quotations.
11 p.m. Close Down.
This Evening's Broadcast From The German Short-Wavers
Special programmes - for. Fer... Eastern iltaners will be broadcast from follow
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SOUTH ASIA ZONE South Asia Zane, hmadesal from DJB, (19.74 metres) and DIN (1145 melzwe},
4:45 pm. JB, DIN Announcement (Germ
Engl) German Feik Bong. Pro Kaisa-Varenzt (Usta, Es**
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57/-. 193/9 192/6 270/3
278/9 69/4% 59/4%
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47/9
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Shanghai, Mar. 20.
When the Great War broke out, A previous report that Mr. Mr. Tatham, having hind previous Ariyoshi, Japanese Minister, to milltary training in Australia, was China, was preparing to return to given the responsibility of organis- Tokyo for the purpose of submiting the training of infantry rein- ting to the Foreign Office his plan selected by the C.R.E. to organise
forcements. In 1910, ho was Burma Corpn. Re. for the
orientation of Japan's and train
10 a half company of Chosen Corpn. general policy toward China, has pioneers, and when these were Crown Mines .... been confirmed by an official report, ready to join the main battalion he which states that he will sall for was made senior officer in charge Spring Mines Japan by the 6.8. Nagasaki on of the transport Baltana, which Sub-Nigel... March, 20.--Central News.
convoyed some, 300 war prisonera Van Ryn Deep.. from Fremantle to Melbourne. He then proceeded to France, with the Anglo-Persian rank of Lieutenant, and whilst Burma Oil there his duties included all classes Shell Trans of military engineering-bridges, railway, and gun emplacements, be- ng attached to the Royal Engineers it. is officially stated that it was
Minister, this afternoon for gas attacks, only a courtesy visit paid to the
WOUNDED IN WAR Finance Minister and that no specific problem was discussed.--Tatham took an active part in the
· During his war service, Mr. Central Ñe108.
big attacks at Messines, Zonnebec and the final Somme attack in 1918,
CADOGAN SEES KUNG
Nanking, Mar, 19. Sir Alexander. Cadogan, British Minister to China, held a brief in- terview with Dr. H. H. Kung, Finance
The local branch of the Mercantile having prepared the roads and
U.S. COMMODITY PRICES
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The following quotations on the
1934 rose by 31 per cent. Twenty-Bank of India has received a lele bridges for the big advance. While nine foreign countries were using gram from its Head Office in London in charge of the Company making New York commodity exchange are British caroplanos, and 33 were advising that at the annual general an advance attack at Bray, in the issued by Reuters, using British
engines, meeting of shareholders a final divi- Somme, he was badly wounded in anwhile, the expansion of the dend of 6 per cent. on the "A" "B" the Royal Air Force necessitated, in and C shares. will be recommended Tatham, who rose to the rank of March
face,
ДЕТ and
leg.. Mr. the first place, additional stations (making 12 per cent for the year Captain, received special mention May and aerodromes, and this account- Landed
less Income Tax): £10,000 written of: ed for the greater part of the £172,000 carried forward to
and House Property and in despatches in 1917 for dia- July. Increzae
1036 tingulehed services and devotion to October of approximately 3 account:
duty. million pounds on the last 1984 Estimatea.-British Wireless.
MOTOR MISHAP.
TWO CARS COLLIDE ON PEAK
DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF
TO BE DOING GOOD IS MAN'S MOST G'ORIOUS TASK.--Sophocles.
The Wing On Co., Ltd., anounces that an unusual Spring Sale has been started from to-day
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Latter Box.
3 p.m. Humeur in the German Tak Bong.
$40 pm. News In Engllah,
Vialets
p.m. “When the Flest
bloom." Variety Programme.
5.69 0.0_New-in. German, -
Concert of Light Mule. News in English.
8.15 9. Close down DJD, "DJN (Germ
Engl.)
BAST ABIA ZONK
East Asia Zone brandenet through DJA o 21.28 melzer, sad DIN (91.45 metres),
$.m. DJA, DJN Annechcement (Germ. Earl.) German Polk Song. Pre- gramme_Farocaal (Germ, Engli Letter Box. 1,58 p.m. German Felk Song Humour. 1,45 pm News in English on DJA and
in Datch on DIN
10 p.m. "When the First Vislata blavat.”
Variety ProTERMS.
11.1. Nawa in Garman on DJA and
DJN.
11.30 p.m. "The Passant in parastary.” A Radio Opera by Aroo Hafeld Conductor: Werner Richter-Reich balm.
New York Cotton.
Mar. 18. Mar. 19.
slown
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In Dutch on DIN.
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10.80/20 10.03. b 11.03/04 11.19/20 11.25/25 | 2° The following win-lematis and tesgummelan 11.38/40 observed. by Daventry,
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Closs down DJA, DJN (Germ a)
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To-day's Broadcasting From Four Transmissions,
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Mr. P. M. N. Da Silva has boen appointed Acting Consul for Portugal September
July In Hongkong, on the departure of the October
11.02 Marquis de Ficalho.
11.18. December
Total sales:---507 lota: -- The annual dinner of the Institu-
Chicago Wheat tion of Engineers and Shipbuilders of Hongkong will be held in the rooms of July
01.. May the Institution, on Friday evening.
CSC 01/91% 88% 884/8834 Beptember
88% 884/884 GBF Monday's sales:-20,987,000 bushels
Chicago-4'aroyi May
76% 77% VITA 721 7814/7334 70 205/70 Total rales: 12,010,000 bushels Winnipeg Whort
8216 88788 82%)-8916/126. New York Rilk
*1.274 = 1.2736/1.29 1.294 1.27 /1.27 1.25 1377137
May
According to a police report, The Rev. Erris G. H. Tribbock Mr. Browning, of No. 353 The gratefully acknowledges, on behalf of Penk. was concerned in a motor the Committee of the Ballors" collision yesterday morning at Soldiers' Home, the following annual Brigade are holding their annual ball St. John Ambulance Association and about 8.15, when, whilst driving subscription and donations to the at the Hongkong Hotel on Saturday to town, his car collided with in- funds of the Home: Annual sub- April 6, under the distinguished July other car at the junction of scription, Captain A. J. Holland 35: patronage of His Excellency, the Reptember Stubbs Road and Magazine Gap 580, Lieutenant Colonel H.B.L. Dow Pool.
Extension fund. Mrs. F. M. Deacon Governor, Sir William Peel, and Lady. Road.
No-one was injured, and the
Wiggin $10. collision appears to have been off
-It is proposed to hold a "Gunner' July The annual meeting of the Hong-Reunion at an early date for all ranks a minor character, as very little kong Auxiliary of the British and (past and present) of the Royal March damago is paid to have been Foreign Bible Society will be held Artillery. The reunion will take the iny. enused to either of the cars, on-Monday, March 15, at 5.30, at form bija dinner at a local reJuly
the Helena MayInstitute. The staurant. It is hoped that all ex- Total sales:-09 fote Bishop of Hongkong will be in the gunners in the Colony will endeavear Montrest silver. HOMESUM, J. B. Montargis gave an chair; and the speakers will be Rev. to attend. Those who wish to do so; të interesting talk at the Rotary Club G. W. Shoppard (General Secretary should communicate with the Hon. May... funcheon yosterday on A Five for China of the Bible Bociety), and Secretary, "Gunner" Reunions Come Alele van 60,507 09.95,00 35
58,76 Weeks Trip in French Indo-China Rev. H. Di T. Burkwall (Secretary hitteo, Headquarters Royal Artillery, September 00.30
for South: China):
#60.45/78 WalichinCommand.
Sala de Fotal sales:---18 contracts
and Yunnan
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